“Our staff and our students knew what to do," said Stacey Beckham, director of communications for Tift County Schools. "They knew where to go, and knew how to get into those proper positions so that everyone was accounted for, and so they begin calling in the students they immediately had seen fighting and then they were also able to review security footage, to see if there were any other students involved to try and resolve all of that.”

Beckham said the biggest problem the school faced was trying to keep parents from trying to pick up their kids during the lockdown.

“When you got so many people in one area, you need to know where they are and having people that you don’t know coming in and out is a safety hazard," Beckham said. "When we are on lockdown, we want to know where your child is and if someone is being checked out then we don’t know necessarily when, or are they already gone? It causes some many more questions and so much more confusion.”